2007-11-01

mind-maps (catastrophe roundup)






I just wanted to post a few examples of what we could do with our final mind-map tomorrow. They're just a few doodles: the first one is supposed to be a mushroom cloud, and the second one is 'little boy' (the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima).

Seeing as we have been exploring the idea of modernity and catastrophe and science and fact and the indeterminate nature of the disaster it could be a challenge to create a kind of mathematical formula (a kind of Spinoza-esque formulation of the Catastrophe?) - that's the third doodle. Ignore the ridiculous content of this example.

And then I've combined the idea of an earthquake with a target of some kind for the last doodle. I did these in like 8 minutes, but we can obviously spend some time crafting whatever we finally come up with in class.

And: I'd still like to produce something tangible (like a product), or start a company that provides a service. Depending on what our diagram looks like we could try and get it made a mobile (cut out of perspex with vinyl stickers)?